Madhupa for Talent · San Francisco Bay Area

Technical
Recruiting.

We place senior AI/ML engineers at Series A–B startups. Founded by engineers who have shipped AI products . We know who can build yours and how to find them.

Start Your SearchHow It Works
5 days
First candidates delivered
24h
Search kickoff after retainer
$3K
To start, credited at close
20%
Placement fee on hire

Simple pricing. No surprises.

Step 01
$3K

Search Initiation

Pay the retainer and search kicks off within 24 hours. No delays, no setup weeks.

Step 02
5 days

Candidate Shortlist

Pre-vetted, technically screened candidates delivered. Every person manually reviewed.

Step 03
20%

Placed & Paid

20% of first-year salary on hire. The $3K retainer is credited in full at close.

Why companies choose Madhupa.

01

Technical depth no generalist recruiter can match.

We assess actual AI agent, RAG, and LLM production experience, not resume keywords. We’ve built and shipped AI products. We know what great looks like and how to find it.

02

Founded by engineers, not recruiters.

We’ve built the products. That gives us a fundamental edge in sourcing, screening, and advising on the bar you should actually hold, not what sounds good on paper.

03

Every candidate manually vetted. Never bulk-sourced.

Your shortlist only has people we’d hire ourselves. We screen for production AI experience, not seniority titles and years of experience.

04

Fastest turnaround in the market. No exceptions.

Candidates in 5 days, not 30. A focused client roster means your search is never in a queue of hundreds.

What we place.

AI Agents & LLM Engineers
Production experience with autonomous agents, multi-step pipelines, tool use, orchestration. Builders, not prompt engineers.
Full-Stack ML Engineers
Model training through to production serving. Comfortable from raw data to deployed inference at scale.
AI Infrastructure & MLOps
Model serving, inference optimization, feature stores, pipelines, and observability. The people who keep it running.

Full transparency, start to finish.

01
Within 24h

Retainer & Search Kickoff

Deep role scoping, technical bar calibration, and active sourcing begins the same day. One dedicated point of contact throughout.

02
Days 1–4

Sourcing & Manual Vetting

We go into our network, source actively, and individually screen every candidate against your specific technical requirements before they reach you.

03
Day 5

Shortlist Delivered

A curated shortlist with write-ups on each candidate. You only spend time interviewing people we’d hire ourselves.

04
Ongoing

Interview Support & Close

We stay involved through interviews, offer strategy, and close. No handoffs. Full transparency on every step.

Who We Serve
1

Series A–B AI-first startups

Companies moving fast and needing to hire right the first time. Speed and precision both matter.

2

Hardtoill ML & AI roles

Roles where generalist recruiters fail. Niche technical requirements that require genuine screening depth.

3

Founders & CTOs who value speed

Technical leaders who know what they need and can’t afford a mis-hire at the founding team level.

Our Promise
Faster than any firm. Built for startups.
More technical than any recruiter. We screen for what matters.
Your hiring partner. not a staffing vendor.
Built for companies that cannot afford to hire wrong.

Start your search within 24 hours.

Tell us the role, the bar, and the timeline. We respond the same day and get to work immediately.

contact@madhupa.com